Price Right to Fill CEO Role at Cancer Center

Beth Price, MBA, has been named to the newly created position of chief executive officer of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

Price has served as oncology operations strategist for Vanderbilt-Ingram and Vanderbilt Medical Group since June 2007, where she assisted in the development and implementation of the regional market oncology strategy and served as interim business officer for the Cancer Center.

As CEO, Price will be responsible for expanding quality cancer services in the Middle Tennessee market and the Southeast, enhancing Vanderbilt-Ingram's status as a top 15 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and providing administrative and business leadership.

“Beth Price has been an invaluable addition to our Cancer Center enterprise,” said Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., director of Vanderbilt-Ingram. “She has a tremendous ability to articulate a vision, develop strategic plans and execute those plans.

“As we expand our clinical services locally and regionally, we will rely on Beth's management skills and expertise to help us offer the highest quality health care to treat cancer patients as well as develop prevention programs and long-term follow-up
care for cancer survivors.”

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Price earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Management from Ithaca College, N.Y., and her MBA from Suffolk University, Boston. She has served as senior manager for strategy and business architecture for Accenture and in management positions at Partners Health Care System, Massachusetts General Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center, affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine. Before joining Vanderbilt-Ingram, Price was chief operating officer for Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville.

“I am delighted by the opportunity to help lead the extraordinary team of professionals at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center,” Price said.

“I am impressed daily with the level of talent, commitment and compassion for patients exhibited by physicians, researchers and staff at the Cancer Center and I am looking forward to working with them to expand and refine our services to those patients and our community.”

– by Dagny Stuart